chore(deps): update protobuf to v27 (major)

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Type	Update	Change
com_google_protobuf	http_archive	major	v26.1 -> v27.0
protocolbuffers/protobuf		major	v26.1 -> v27.0

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Release Notes

protocolbuffers/protobuf (com_google_protobuf)

v27.0

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v27.0-rc3: Protocol Buffers v27.0-rc3

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Announcements

• Protobuf News may include additional announcements or pre-announcements for upcoming changes.

Compiler

• Add extension declarations for known features. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@f8d0a5b)

Java

• Add java to reserved names to escape extensions to java_. This may break existing references to gencode for extensions named java. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@c18cb95)

Python

• Add temporary alias for system_python.bzl at previous location . (#​16787) (protocolbuffers/protobuf@ffd753f)

Other

• Work around windows path length limitations by moving immutable -> full in open source (new generator paths) and shortening long file names. (#​16825) (protocolbuffers/protobuf@615e704)

v27.0-rc2: Protocol Buffers v27.0-rc2

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Announcements

• Protobuf News may include additional announcements or pre-announcements for upcoming changes.

Compiler

• Refactored the Java generator into separate packages and targets. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@bd81fd9)

C++

• Fix validation checks of implicit presence. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@bdf6b10)
• Clarify map behaviors in editions. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@61c9187)

Java

• Deprecate building from source with Maven to be removed in 4.28.x. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@51b48a4)
• Split bootstrapped java_features.proto to keep it from leaking out. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@d56cb7d)
• Refactored the Java generator into separate packages and targets. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@bd81fd9)

Other

• Move the windows path length workarounds out of protobuf-ci (protocolbuffers/protobuf@9d715cb)
• Update src/file_lists.cmake for staleness (protocolbuffers/protobuf@cd337dd)
• Add system_python to protobuf_deps.bzl. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@65ee123)
• Migrate bazel tests to protobuf-ci. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@1ee203b)
• Fix bazel cache issues in 7.0.0 (protocolbuffers/protobuf@16acf7e)

v27.0-rc1: Protocol Buffers v27.0-rc1

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Announcements

• Protobuf News may include additional announcements or pre-announcements for upcoming changes.

Compiler

• Officially release Editions in 27.0. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@baa83b6)
• Define lifetimes of edition 2023 features (protocolbuffers/protobuf@77f62de)
• Implement feature lifetime validation in protoc and the C++ runtime. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@b3b4497)
• Add edition lifetime options for feature specs. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@b09b3e4)
• Enable editions support for Java Lite. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@500c953)
• Release edition defaults CLI arguments. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@7a0e10e)
• Update protoc release to include editions language features protos for Java and C++ (protocolbuffers/protobuf@6483c47)

C++

• [C++] Ensure we allocate overaligned types with aligned operator new. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@11ef0ff)
• Fix text-format delimited field handling (protocolbuffers/protobuf@29c69ff)
• In debug mode, after clearing oneof messages on arenas, poison them if ASAN. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@8826baf)
• Allow string_type for Edition 2023. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@d8251eb)
• Breaking change: Ensure we allocate overaligned types with aligned operator new. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@11ef0ff)
• Python JSON parser: Ignore invalid enum string values if ignore_unknown_fields is set (#​15887) (protocolbuffers/protobuf@86abf35)
• Move java_features.proto to java/core/srce/main/resources (protocolbuffers/protobuf@274bc7f)
• Add an RAII namespace printer helper for C++ codegen. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@8599ab5)
• Enable editions support for Java Lite. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@500c953)
• Add an RAII ifndef helper for C++ codegen. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@1087274)
• Clear oneof message fields even on arena on non-OPT builds. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@5c183bd)
• Implement edition 2023 support in all Ruby runtimes. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@bca8fb6)
• Release edition defaults CLI arguments. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@7a0e10e)
• Deprecate Arena::CreateMessage for OSS. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@d4bfe52)
• Open sourcing reflection_visit_fieds. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@cfc07df)
• Fixed the use of c++ keywords within namespace names (#​15954) (protocolbuffers/protobuf@988194a)
• Fix pkg-config metadata for shared abseil on windows (#​15888) (protocolbuffers/protobuf@fe6edca)
• Add GetStringView() and GetRepeatedStringView() with scratch. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@a3f5af0)
• Avoid a 'may be used uninitialized' warning when built with '-c opt'. (#​15846) (protocolbuffers/protobuf@eb70b34)
• Add software prefetch to ByteSizeLong (protocolbuffers/protobuf@948ca2e)
• Add prefetching in arena blocks. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@9e57b8e)
• Breaking change: Remove the deprecated always_print_primitive_fields option from Java, Python and C++ JSON parsers. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@2699579)
• Rename the 'includingDefaultValueWithoutPresenceFields' and 'always_print_without_presence_fields' to 'alwaysPrintFieldsWithNoPresence' in the Cpp, Py and Java JSON serializers for consistency. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@7d43131)
• Remove tags for arena cleanup nodes now that we have dedicated string cleanup blocks. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@202b106)
• Avoid unused-parameter warning in field accessor listeners. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@f4d5c2c)
• Add new 'always_print_without_presence_fields' option to the C++ JSON serializer. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@671b61b)
• Fail to build descriptor if ctype is specified for non string/bytes fields (protocolbuffers/protobuf@8b4c7a1)
• Check ctype() in DescriptorBuilder for edition 2023 and beyond. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@307aeac)
• Fail building descriptors if ctype is used for fields other than string or bytes. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@403e207)
• Fix generation of HasExtension and ExtensionSize functions to restrict to the (protocolbuffers/protobuf@9f5be07)
• Add the privacy manifest to the C++ CocoaPod. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@982ea24)

Java

• Define lifetimes of edition 2023 features (protocolbuffers/protobuf@77f62de)
• Check that size is non-negative when reading string or bytes in StreamDecoder. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@a94f57b)
• Fix text-format delimited field handling (protocolbuffers/protobuf@29c69ff)
• Move java_features.proto to java/core/srce/main/resources (protocolbuffers/protobuf@274bc7f)
• Add java_features.proto to kotlin_mvn release (protocolbuffers/protobuf@369732a)
• Enable editions support for Java Lite. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@500c953)
• Fix descriptor to access type via getType() s.t. messages using delimited encoding are consistently treated as groups for Java lite. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@9f001a9)
• Make UnsafeByteOperations stable; removing experimental annotation. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@0070ac1)
• Fix features inheritance of oneof fields and extensions and fix/move unit tests to actually run. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@eb10ebd)
• Add software prefetch to ByteSizeLong (protocolbuffers/protobuf@948ca2e)
• Breaking change: Remove the deprecated always_print_primitive_fields option from Java, Python and C++ JSON parsers. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@2699579)
• Rename the 'includingDefaultValueWithoutPresenceFields' and 'always_print_without_presence_fields' to 'alwaysPrintFieldsWithNoPresence' in the Cpp, Py and Java JSON serializers for consistency. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@7d43131)
• Add a new 'includingDefaultValueWithoutPresenceFields' option to the Java parser which is intended to replace the current 'includingDefaultValueFields'. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@58baeb4)

Kotlin

• Add java_features.proto to kotlin_mvn release (protocolbuffers/protobuf@369732a)

Csharp

• C#: Optimize JSON parsing in JsonTokenizer (protocolbuffers/protobuf@68e6e3e)
• C#: Avoid string concatenation when looking up enum values by name. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@e6684ac)
• Cache StringBuilder instances in the .NET JsonTextTokenizer. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@fac929d)
• Enable Editions in the C# generator. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@421040b)
• Runtime support for Protobuf Editions in C#. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@450022d)
• Tweak "group to property name" mapping for C#. Under editions, where fields using a delimited encoding have independent field names from type names, we want to use the specified field name. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@139ea4d)
• C#: Ignore invalid enum string values in JSON, when invalid fields are being ignored. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@55e50ba)

Objective-C

• Optimize startup be reducing selector lookup. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@b375d01)
• Add the privacy manifest to the ObjC CocoaPod. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@0d91515)

Python

• Implement feature lifetime validation in protoc and the C++ runtime. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@b3b4497)
• Fix text-format delimited field handling (protocolbuffers/protobuf@29c69ff)
• Python JSON parser: Ignore invalid enum string values if ignore_unknown_fields is set (#​15887) (protocolbuffers/protobuf@86abf35)
• Fix upb python: DO NOT create empty optional field after sorting empty repeated field (protocolbuffers/protobuf@7cf0238)
• Enable Protobuf Python version check. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@0442ed6)
• Register Scalar/MessageMapContainerTypes as virtual subclasses of MutableMapping instead of inheriting directly. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@5b32936)
• Breaking change: Remove the deprecated always_print_primitive_fields option from Java, Python and C++ JSON parsers. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@2699579)
• Rename the 'includingDefaultValueWithoutPresenceFields' and 'always_print_without_presence_fields' to 'alwaysPrintFieldsWithNoPresence' in the Cpp, Py and Java JSON serializers for consistency. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@7d43131)
• Breaking change: Removed obsolete/duplicate setup.py from Python. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@8135fca)
• Add new including_default_value_without_presence_fields to Python JSON serializer. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@25c6d34)
• Adhere to PEP 8 (#​15127) (protocolbuffers/protobuf@21ab745)

PHP

• Don't break the trace (#​11311) (protocolbuffers/protobuf@d67f921)
• Breaking change: Remove deprecated legacy class aliases. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@60b80c6)
• Fix inconsistent timestamp json encode/decode (#​12396) (protocolbuffers/protobuf@47e92cd)
• Feat: more readable phpdoc escaping (#​11208) (protocolbuffers/protobuf@f929439)

Ruby

• Add bigdecimal to dependencies (#​16379) (protocolbuffers/protobuf@d810ef6)
• Implement service & method descriptor lookup in Ruby (#​15817) (protocolbuffers/protobuf@2082ee8)
• Implement edition 2023 support in all Ruby runtimes. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@bca8fb6)
• Ruby implement memsize functions for native types (#​10291) (protocolbuffers/protobuf@87cbddd)
• Moved ObjectCache into an internal module. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@f824f6d)
• [Ruby] Delegate difference, intersection, union from RepeatedField to Array (#​15652) (protocolbuffers/protobuf@11eab86)
• Move the RubyMessage.java JSON "include defaults" to use alwaysPrintFieldsWithNoPresence. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@4d23fa0)
• Increased the size of the error message buffer by 4x, to 511 bytes. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@32a6f7a)

Ruby C-Extension

• Implement service & method descriptor lookup in Ruby (#​15817) (protocolbuffers/protobuf@2082ee8)
• Implement edition 2023 support in all Ruby runtimes. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@bca8fb6)
• Ruby implement memsize functions for native types (#​10291) (protocolbuffers/protobuf@87cbddd)
• Moved ObjectCache into an internal module. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@f824f6d)
• See also UPB changes below, which may affect Ruby C-Extension.

UPB (Python/PHP/Ruby C-Extension)

• Setup upb installation with cmake. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@6898451)
• Fix text-format delimited field handling (protocolbuffers/protobuf@29c69ff)
• Print non-extension fields by field number order instead of .proto file order. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@8612d5e)
• Implement service & method descriptor lookup in Ruby (#​15817) (protocolbuffers/protobuf@2082ee8)
• Implement edition 2023 support in all Ruby runtimes. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@bca8fb6)
• Adds mutable extension accessors to the codegen for upb C for getting mutable extension messages. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@e8244da)
• Ruby implement memsize functions for native types (#​10291) (protocolbuffers/protobuf@87cbddd)
• Increased the size of the error message buffer by 4x, to 511 bytes. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@32a6f7a)

Conformance

• Added conformance test for unknown field ordering. (protocolbuffers/protobuf@1f6580d)
• Add editions-specific conformance tests (protocolbuffers/protobuf@8ab39ed)

Other

• Add redirects for C++ and Java proto rules (protocolbuffers/protobuf@9da1b86)
• Add redirects for proto rules (protocolbuffers/protobuf@d4d34ab)
• Feat: automate publishing releases to Bazel Central Registry (#​16014) (protocolbuffers/protobuf@d2b71b3)
• Add PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy (#​15557) (protocolbuffers/protobuf@684660f)

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FWIW, the protobuf team creates a tag and then creates the release. This is only updating Bazel builds (which use the tag for unknown reasons), but not the CMake-based build. If we wait a bit the Protobuf folks will create a full release and we get all builds updated.

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